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How does climate change affect health

WebHow can health studies create change? Dr Bhutta has been working in child and maternal health since the 1970s, saying “Women and children, particularly young …

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About the Aga Khan Health Services

WebAga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is one of three AKDN agencies that support activities in health, alongside the Aga Khan Foundation and the Aga Khan University (AKU). …

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BMJ article features Aga Khan Development Network’s health …

WebThe effort to achieve universal health coverage in low-to-middle-income countries stands to significantly increase the global carbon footprint, but a new article …

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What We Do: Health

WebAKDN’s broad, long-range approach to health addresses chronic health issues in poor communities. We operate community health projects, often in conjunction with rural …

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Environment and Climate

WebAKHS's overall approach to climate-smart and environmentally-friendly health care is based on: Emphasising health promotion, disease prevention and primary health care. The …

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Aga Khan University to build new teaching hospital in Kampala, …

WebKampala, Uganda, 17 December 2015 - The Aga Khan University, a not-for-profit, private international university, announced today it will build a teaching hospital in Kampala to …

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AKHS in Central Asia and the Middle East

WebThe focus of the AKHS programme in Salamieh district (population size 240,000) in Syria is health system strengthening. This is done by supporting the diagnostic and therapeutic …

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Aga Khan Health Services

WebAga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is one of three AKDN agencies that support activities in health, alongside the Aga Khan Foundation and the Aga Khan University. Together, they …

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Medical Colleges

WebThe Aga Khan University’s medical Colleges educate world-class health professionals and are internationally renowned for their research. Our graduates and faculty members …

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Digital Health Resource Centre

WebThe Aga Khan Development Network Digital Health Resource Centre (AKDN dHRC) drives improvements in access, quality, cost, efficiency and safety of health care through …

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Aga Khan health facilities expand in Gilgit-Baltistan

WebGilgit, Pakistan, 25 November 2021 – Two state-of-the-art health facilities – an expansion of the Aga Khan Medical Centre in Gilgit and construction of a new Aga Khan Health …

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Health and Nutrition

WebThe AKDN Health Programme introduced community-based health initiatives that had been defined as priorities by the local community, including child care and development, …

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Research and collaborations

WebAKDN's Digital Health Resource Centre (dHRC) collaborates with national and international partners to design and develop high-impact, low-cost health products and applications …

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AKHS in East Africa

WebThe Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH-N) was established in 2005 and received its Charter from the Government of Kenya in 2021. These institutions entered a new period …

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AKDN in Tajikistan

WebAKDN works for an economically dynamic, politically stable, intellectually vibrant and culturally tolerant Tajikistan. Several AKDN agencies collaborate to bring the …

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Aga Khan building capacity for E. Africa healthcare professionals

WebThere is need for capacity building Tanzania health sector to increase the number of healthcare practitioners as well as the quality of medical equipment and …

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Zanzibar: Health care in transition

WebThe Centre, operated by Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) with finance from the Agence Française de Développement, aims to enhance and maintain the …

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